Judge Sentences an Angry “Karen” to Work in a Fast-Food Restaurant

One "Karen" who chucked a hot bowl  of grub at a Chipotle employee is about to experience firsthand what she dished out.

Rosemary Hayne from Parma, Ohio, who was initially handed a six-month jail term for her assault, caught a break when the judge proposed a reduced sentence in exchange  for her clocking in at the fast-food joint. Unsurprisingly, Rosemary took up the offer.
 

sheesh she really threw the Chipotle bowl at her pic.twitter.com/yqltRhwHa5

— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) September 7, 2023

From Newser:

 Hayne was found guilty of assault on Nov. 28 over the September incident, which a customer captured on video that went viral. She was seen screaming at workers including restaurant manager Emily Russell before she threw a chicken burrito bowl in Russell's face.

Police said Hayne was easy to track down after the assault because she had placed the order online. "You didn't get your burrito bowl the way you like it and this is how you respond?" Judge Timothy Gilligan told Hayne during sentencing. "This is not real housewives of Parma. This behavior is not acceptable." Hayne told the court there was no excuse for her behavior, though she added that the food had looked "disgusting" compared to her order from a week earlier. "I bet you won't be happy with the food you are going to get in the jail," the judge told her. Gilligan said he thought, "Why should the city taxpayers pay for her and feed her for 90 days in the jail if I can teach her a sense of empathy?"

Russell, 26, tells the Post that she was protecting a 17-year-old worker who was being yelled at—and she remade Hayne's order twice. After the assault, "I had to work with food in my face and hair for the next four hours after it happened because no one was sent to relieve me," she says. Russell says that after experiencing anxiety at work and feeling unsupported by Chipotle, she quit a month later and now has a new job at a Raising Cane's restaurant. She tells the Post that she's happy with the sentence and feels Hayne "got exactly what she deserved."

Consider this a heads-up  to all the "Karens" out there – treat hourly employees like garbage, and you could find yourself on the flip side of that cash register.